Substage – Natural language command bar for Finder windows on Mac

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Substage – Natural language command bar for Finder windows on Mac is a company in show hn launch.

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Hey all!I’m a solo indie dev and I’ve been working on Substage – a Mac app that docks under your Finder window and lets you interact with your files using natural language. Stuff like:• Convert to webp• zip these up• Author of this PDF?• Download this file: <url>• Is this really a PNG?• What's 5 foot 9 in cm?• Open in TextMateSubstage converts your prompt into a Terminal command using an LLM (GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, Mistral, or your own local model), runs it, and summarises the output. If it detects something risky, it’ll pause for confirmation before running. Commands run locally on your Mac – Substage doesn’t access your files directly, just the metadata and paths you select. However, if y

The company sits in the show hn launch segment, where it competes on its core product or service.

Its current recorded stage is Show HN launch.

Website: selkie.design/substage